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Article: Neighborhood Has Both Italian and Beat Generation Roots.(MBA's 95th Annual: Convention Special Edition)
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- National Mortgage News
- Article date:
- October 8, 2008
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Byline: Terry Peters
What haven for Beat Generation intellectuals also spawned the nation's oldest Italian restaurant?
That would be North Beach, a historic San Francisco neighborhood located between Chinatown and Fisherman's Wharf, just west of Telegraph Hill and the Coit Tower. North Beach is "that rare thing - a neighborhood that manages to be a perennial hit with tourists, and also to remain beloved by San Franciscans," according to SFGate.com's San Francisco Neighborhood Guide.
The neighborhood was part of the old Barbary Coast, a waterfront area that was named after the notorious pirate coast of North Africa because the California Gold ...